SleighLaw is one of Vermont’s leading criminal defense and personal injury law firms

Proven Advocates – Top Vermont Criminal Defense Lawyer With Over 30 Years of Experience

The team at SleighLaw is driven to tenaciously advocate for individuals against the powerful. With nearly four decades of experience and having tried hundreds of criminal and civil cases in the Courts of several States and Federal Courts, David Sleigh and the rest of the team bring their knowledge, experience and a track record of success to benefit every client.

The Defense Never Rests

Whether you’ve been charged with a crime or are fighting insurance companies in a personal injury case, we can help. A good lawyer is proactive and challenges the status quo–we’ll speak up for you.

Our Areas of Practice

Personal Injury

Civil Rights

DUI/DWI

Assaults

Sex Crimes

Domestic Assault

Arson

Embezzlement

State V. Tracy

Tracy, an African/American young man, was accused of raping a white 14-year-old at a local music festival. There was no admissible forensic evidence corroborating the alleged assault. Trial commenced in Caledonia County, but during the jury selection process, a...

State V. Root

In this DWI case, years of work challenging the Vermont State Lab’s prejudicial and biased breath/alcohol calculations finally hit pay dirt. It was well known that credible scientist would not rely on a single “average” metabolism rate when calculating a subject’s...

In Re: Abdul Zahir

On July 11, 2002, Abdul Zahir was detained by U.S. Forces in Afghanistan after a fellow villager accused him of working for the Taliban and foreign forces hostile to the Afghan government, including Osama Bin Ladin. When Zahir’s home was raided, three pressure cookers...

SleighLaw in the News

Former deputy sheriff found guilty in road rage incident – VTDigger

by dev | Apr 29, 2022

A former Orange County deputy sheriff was found guilty late Thursday on two counts of aggravated assault and a third charge of providing a false statement to police following a 2019 road rage incident. On Oct. 7, 2019, William Pine of Brookfield followed a Jeep...

Friends remember slain trans woman, suspect faces murder charge – WPTZ

by dev | Apr 19, 2022

A Vermont man pleaded not guilty Thursday in the stabbing death of a transgender woman, whom friends are remembering as kind, spunky, and fun to be around."Just a really wonderful human being all around, that loved all things," said Gracie Kennaugh, describing Fern...

Trans Woman Fatally Stabbed in Vermont; Suspect Tries 'Panic' Excuse – The Advocate

by dev | Apr 16, 2022

Transgender woman Fern Feather, 29, of Hinesburg, Vt., was found stabbed to death Tuesday along a road in another Vermont community, Morristown, and the man charged has made statements amounting to a “trans panic” defense. Feather had picked up hitchhiker Seth...

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